The human mind can bear plenty of reality
but not too much intermittent gloom.
?Margaret Drabble
We gather strength from sadness and from
pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
?Source Unknown
There can be no rainbow without
a cloud and a storm.
?John Heyl Vincent
What is the source of sadness, but
feebleness of the mind? What giveth it
power but the want of reason? Rouse
thyself to the combat, and she
quitteth the field before thou strikest.
?Akhenaton
I can see the humorous side of things and
enjoy the fun when it comes; but look
where I will, there seems to me
always more sadness than joy in life.
?Jerome K. Jerome
No society has been able to abolish human
sadness, no political system can deliver us from
the pain of living, from our fear of death, our
thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition
that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
?Eugene Ionesco
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not
reach us from the world and through mere
contemplation of the world. It is a product of our
own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
?Emile Durkheim
